POLI 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Political Action Committee, Parliamentary Sovereignty, Veto
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What is the topic? assessing the impact of the charter of rights and freedoms on the canadian political system on many areas. What is the author"s argument to the proposed research question? the charter induces significant and permanent changes in the conduct of canadian politics. The charter leaves a great impact on judicial behavior: new constitutional jurisprudence, supreme court"s new activism. Individual success rate in charter litigation slowly increasing. Impact on interest group behavior: creation of a new forum for interest group activity, charter created a new access point in the decision-making process, still perceived as illegitimate. Impact on executive behavior: governments actively participated in charter politics through the devices of the section 33 legislative override and the reference procedure, except for quebec , allowed governments to initiate rather than to react to charter issues. The novelty of the charter has been greatest. The meaning of (cid:712)judicialization(cid:713) of canadian politics began to be more specific.
